Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-10-12
BADGER NEWS.

FL. B. THIEssA, the partner of w. FL.
Wood In an agricultural implement
business at Glen Haven, absconded
Westward after he had quietly col
lected all he could that was dine the
firm, getting into his hands between
$500 and ST. ,OCO in cash and notes.
He took the leaves from the books
showing receipts Of sales, and took
money without giving receipts.
THE business men Of Rice Lake,
Cameron and Barron are negotiating
for telephone communication with
the state at large.
w. A. WALLACE, manager Of the
Brunswick Bake Collender Company,
at Milwaukee, has been arrested on g.
charge Of embezzlement. Mr.. Wallace's
shortage is said to amount to several
hundred dollars.
TIE State Baptist Convention at
La Crosse adopted q resolution IA.
voring temperance and warning po-
litical parties that to secure the vote
of churchmen they must incorporate
q temperance plank In their platform.
SENATOR SAWYER, for the Sawyer,
Goodman Lumber Company, OF Chi
cago, has completed deal for large
tract of pine land situated IN Wiscon-
sin and located near the Menomonee
River and along the Pemene Ben Won.
The tract contains in the neighbour
hood of 900 acres and has about
1OO,OOO.OOO feet OF pine besides some
other timber. Thepurchase price was
between $25O,OOO and 100000, and
the property was bought Of the heirs
Of Detroit man.
AT Blair, Trempealeau County, on
the 9Th, Carl Hottie and Gustav Hal
berg, farmers, got into dispute over
money matters. They went to Hal
berg's home, where the quarrel was
resnewed ,reulting in Hottie berg shot
dead by Halberg.
FRANK EDWARDS. who is charged
with having stabbed Ben Daily at
Milwaukee, has been bound over for
trial in the sum of $4,000. Daily was
able to appear in court, and although
rather pale and weak is improving
rapidly.
D. III. JONES, of Barneveld, Iowa
County, has been visited by his daugh-
ter who, when he last saw her was
years old. She is now wife with six
children.
THE mains of the La Crosse gas
works will be extended to Onalaska.
CHARLES KELLEY, under arrest at
La Crosse, for tilI-tapping, is wanted
to answer to a. charge Of criminal as
sault.
A SEVERE hail storm visited La
Oh osse. Little damage was done, as
the storm was not accompanied by
wind.
ABOUT thirty citizens of Ashland
have resolved themselves into law
and order league.
MARY MOSES, an aged Indian woman
resident on the Oneida reservation,
has been awarded 2 pension of $12 q
month and pension arrears of $4,000
on account OF the death Of her son
John.
A HORSE bolted on the race track st
the Madison fair, causing q stampede
OF the trotters. One horse ran four
times around the course, and finally
leaped the fence and ran into his
stables.
OFFICERS elected by the Baptist
Ministerial Union, in session at La
Crosse: President, Rev. W. A. McKil-
lop; vice-president, Rev. J. Stanley;
executive committee, Revs. G. A.
Hubbs, j. W. Hubert, L. l.. Cloyd.
CHRISTIE Bros, of East Saginaw,
Mich, have sold 1000 acres of land
in Chippewa County to the Chippewa
Lumber & Boom Company, the con-
sideration being $4,000.
The high price of coal is having ef-
feet upon wood-getting in the North
west. 1t is said that number of
portable mills will be taken into the
hardwood forests of the Chippewa
Valley, this fall, to saw cordwood.
G. FL. MILLER's laundry at La
Crosse was ransacked by burglars re.
Gently. A quantity of linen WAS stolen
and the money drawer robbed.
A SECTION of the Wisconsin Central
Company's coal dock at Ashland,
25x1OO feet, gave way and between
$500 and 4 1000 tons of coal went
into Chequamegon Bay.
SALMON SAIL was arrested near
Ashland and taken to Sycamore, ILL.,,
to answer to a charge Of bigamy.
POTATOES in large quantities are be.
ing shipped from Eau Claire to North
ern Illinois where they command ST
per busael.